Job Description

True innovators are hard to come by; those with the ability to examine a portfolio of products and see the potential to exploit gaps around the product offering and translate that potential into a physical reality i.e. a product customers will want to and can, buy. Sound easy? Then read on...
Operating at senior level in the Marketing team of this leading global FMCG company, the Senior Innovation Manager role is concerned with identifying a rolling pipeline of NPD in a key area of the business. Through your own innovation, business case development and execution, you will explore new opportunities within a key category of the business, with a view to establishing an NPD pipeline and strategy that will consistently launch exciting products into the market and grow our core business areas.
You will have an Innovation Marketing or Research & Development background and be able to prove your creativity credentials as a high level idea generator. Combined with this, you need a strategic capacity to understand and meet the demands of the business needs.
Also required are:
* Full mastery of the marketing toolbox
* An excellent ability to develop and understand insight to test hypotheses
* Strong communication and presentation skills for recommendations at a senior level
* An entrepreneurial spirit to strive for results
If you can drive forward this FMCG business's innovative thinking and can genuinely produce the goods, then we would like to hear from you.